Coming from experience with some of the smaller offerings from kifaru and Seek outside I'll throw in my 2 pence
After buying new kifaru packs and shelters in 2010 I've sold and bought different setups on the classifieds. As of now almost all my gear is used and it's held up well, there's something to say for the durability of the higher quality gear.
Kifaru super tarp (new) was good solo, not so much with two, to include my GF even though she's petite and I'm a blocky cave troll. First night out I kicked her in the head on accident turning around in the shelter. Musta knocked something loose cuz now she loves sleeping outside.
Traded up for the megatarp. I've used it with the two of us but really it's my solo bivy hunt shelter. At 52" it's so short I have to crawl to get into it. Upside it only needs trekking poles to pitch. Downside is no sodskirt like the seek outside offerings.
Found a great deal on the now discontinued Seekoutside BCS2 which is a modern variant George tarp / psuedo Sawtooth/ predecessor to the Redcliff. And similar to Redcliff size.
1. Me At 5'10" and shelter at 6'10" it's a stand up/walk-in shelter. That standup space is only at the center pole. I can walk in a circle with one shoulder touching the pole and my other shoulder brushes the tarp. So it's not standup and dance room but it's " get dressed like a man room."
2. the BCS2 front face completely zips off just like the LBO and allows base+base or base+vestibule configurations. If run 2 people or it's shitty wheather where I want a stove solo I run base+vest instead of the mega.
3. With BCS2 base+base (essentially a Redcliff) I have had 4 people with a SO large stove no problem. Granted we were not hunting, it was more of a chill cruise in the mountains trip, so minimal gear. But we had all of our packs inside the shelter with the stove going.
4. I'll never sell my BCS2 because I have all the components to go from solo+ stove, to 4+stove and have the nest/liner that gives me condensation and bug protection.
5. SO BCS2, Redcliff, LBO and Cimmaron are all modified pyramids so they are less complicated to pitch than a round/oval tipi. Please correct me if Im Talking out my arse (you tipi guys you) but there's not the offset and restaking and mathematical rocket wizardry invovolved in the above mentioned vs the true tipi.
6. The SO sod skirt is on point! When your up top and the winds are changing and blowing under your shelter turing it into a staked down parachute the sod skirt really helps midigate that effect. Enough so that I'm replacing my mega with an LBO based off previous experience.
Seekoutside has been amazing to deal with and I've enjoyed their shelters the most, their modified Mids are super fast to pitch.
On the stoves. My experience with the SO large is too get it cranking, make a coal bed, load up with big logs and dampen it Down. Im experiencing 1.5-2 hr avg. Heat output with coals lasting about 3ish hours. If I wake up to restoke (which I usually do to keep the woman-folk happy) the coals are enough to get it going again. I think 2 stokes will get you through the night.
I won't bring the stove solo unless I'm base camping and the sky's are dark. If your always 2 or 3 in a group grab the stove. If I knew I'd never ever carry it solo I would have gotten the sxl or xl stove for more burn time. I compromised for the large because of those times I do carry it by myself.
And on the trip we had BCS in base+base (i.e. redcliff) with the large stove I carried all of it, and I didn't die. So I guess I'm saying even if you had to hump all of it, Redcliff +stove it isnt impossible.
still wish SO offered the BCS2 it's a great setup. Email them and demand the super LBO... The big Bug-cliff, ...the back country bug-out... I dunno whatever they'd want to call it .
Hope this helps